The Self Quotes

Reading promotes confident.

We encounter many sacred souls while reading.

The joy of reading is sacred pleasure.

If you read stories, you will learn the valuable lessons of life situations, survival and build strength.

If you are brave, you will open the book and read it.

Greatest companion is found in reading great books.

I know the mind of ancient souls by reading ancient books.

We wait for God to bless us while God waits for us to accept the blessing.

It is better for you to read the Holy Bible, for your own enlightenment.

The spirit of life, the spirit of peace.

Daily reading of scriptures is essential for your spiritual growth.

The best self is a beautiful spirit.

Worldly life means [state of continuous] agitation and uneasiness. What makes one like it, it is a wonder in itself!

You yourself are indeed Bhagwan [God], but the qualities of God have not yet manifested.

People have unlatched the energies of the worldly self (jiv shakti), but they have not unlatched the energies of Real Self (shiv shakti).

To become God (Khuda) one does not need weapons. One needs to recognize his [True] Self (Khud). The one who knows one’s own Self (khud), is God (khuda).

The man who is not ‘sincere’ to others is not ‘sincere’ to his own self!

In this era, there are all kinds of prakrutis (personality of the relative self), so how can it work without adjusting?

There are only two things to understand in this world. First is, one’s own True Self, and the other is, our faults from the past [life]. Won’t these faults have to be broken?

There is no need to slander the nimit (one who is instrumental), it is only necessary to distance yourself from that nimit.

Man (human life form) is a 'second-hand' quality of the absolute supreme Self (Parmatma, Lord). Man is close to the Lord [absolute supreme Self].

One becomes Parmatma (absolute supreme self) if he comes into the True Self even for a fraction of time.

As long as there is (worldly) selfish interest, there is no unity. Unity is attained with the ultimate intent of the Self [the intent of attaining self-realization, liberation].

Misery will not come to the one who does not deceive his own Self. Miseries arise because one deceives one’s own Self.

I’ is your own Self, only this much is to be ‘realized’!

I’ means the Self and ‘my’ means what belongs to the self. All that is ‘my’ is acquisition [parigrah]. You should keep [only] whatever acquisition you are able to carry.

In all animals, egoism is in a seed-form. It bears effect as a tree in the human life form! If the egoism is destroyed, ‘one’ becomes the ‘Absolute Supreme Self’[parmatma]!

Nothing can touch the one who is oodasin (one unperturbed by worldly life). After attaining Knowledge of the Self, if one applies awareness of the Self, one can remain unperturbed (oodasin).

What is the goal of a human being? An Indian person can truly achieve a state of the Absolute Supreme Self [Parmatma, the Lord]. To achieve one’s own Absolute Supreme Self state is the ultimate goal!

How can one become free from the mind? If he lives as if he is dead, then he can become free from his mind.

One whose faith (nishtha) is set in God, he is known as Brahma-nishtha (settled in the Self).

When Self (Khuda) is realized, egoism (Aap-khudi) goes away.

When I am centered on love I don't need to be better than you. I don't need to be rich. I don't even need to be extraordinary. When I am centered on love, who I am and where I am at is enough.

No one knows while experiencing their darkest hour that some day they may use that very experience to illuminate the ways for others. Nothing is ever wasted.

Whatever the other person sees according to his view-point, you have to accept it. How can we make others accept our view-point?

For how long will insult hurt a person? For as long as he covets self-importance. For as long as one covets temporary [non eternal] things

Compassion can be learned through example

In a Universe with infinite possibilities we don't have to have our hearts set on just one.

Our connections to the Oneness of the Universe/God are both physical/atomic matter and nonphysical spiritual/energy.

The ‘knowledge’ (gnan) that was resulting into ‘the things to be known’ (gneya)

Maya (deceit) means ignorance of one’s own Self!

There is only supreme bliss in the Soul, our True Self. But this bliss is obstructed because of impure inner intents.

Humans in this world live based on two things: one is on the basis of the Self and the other is on the basis of the egoism.

When the ‘right belief’ occurs, the world will appear quite different. ‘Right belief’ will take one towards the Eternal (Self), and the ‘wrong belief’ will take one towards the worldly life.

The belief of Gnan (Knowledge of the Self) is known as samkit (Right belief). Ignorant belief is known as mithyatva (illusion).

To imagine the Self where it is not, is called maya (deceit).

When egoism ends, that indeed is called the Absolute supreme Self (Parmatma). Egoism indeed is the illusion.

Unless the Self is known, the power of the Self (swa satta) cannot arise.

Everyone’s unfolding karma will change. To maintain equanimity during the unfolding of karmic effect is the Gnanis’ (Self-realized person’s) duty.

We not only don’t have fun with what we are supposed to enjoy, but whatever we don’t enjoy has started having fun with us.